Sooty and Sweep want to be pirates and, with a lick of paint and a new mast, the SS Sooty is soon ready to sail. But can they defeat the fearsome pirate of the lake?

Richard has been acting strangely all week, and Sooty and the gang are convinced he is getting married. But they have not been invited! With the wedding only a day away, can Sooty and Sweep keep out ...

The puppet had been gifted to Mrs Stewart's father by Harry Corbett in the late 1970s when they lived in the same Dorset village. She said: "We always knew our Sooty puppet was extra special.

The Soo, Sooty and Sweep puppets were given to a family by their creator Harry Corbett in the 1970s A complete set of puppets from the children's television show Sooty has sold at auction for £5,000.